Example sentences of "but [pron] would [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But I would first start with a slightly wider issue .
2 That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments .
3 But we would all do well to learn to eat more slowly and to savour the taste of what we are eating .
4 No but we would This money we spend at the moment er on the bridal magazine was specifically given to test the market by this advertising .
5 One thing that I think we have to be very careful about , if we did legalize cannabis there would be a proportion of adolescents who would get a great kick out of it , but there would those who do n't get the kick because it 's not illegal .
6 In Ireland he might be able to choose between several candidates , but they would all have been selected by his party , and in such a way as to condition his choice if not to determine it absolutely .
7 They would be competing with each other in the canopy for exactly the same sunlight , but they would all have ‘ paid ’ much smaller growing costs to get into the canopy .
8 Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years .
9 However , had the existence of such a beast been discussed , it would have been firmly suppressed by the elder girls and not discussed again , but they would all have had their won fears nevertheless , although these would be of a more ‘ normal ’ manner — the fear would be rational — in its causes at least , although perhaps irrational in its proportions .
10 He was almost certain that it belonged to Maidstone but he would newer leave half a glass of wine behind , surely .
11 Patsy was in the big , warm kitchen , the table covered with flour and crockery , but it would all be swept away and scrubbed by meal time .
12 But it would all be worth it to see them settled and thriving in their new home .
13 In every other way he was doing wonders but it would all be lost if he fell into a trap and saw the paper closed .
14 But it would all be lies .
15 An Observer sale would not make much of a dent but it would staunch losses Lonrho may no longer want to suffer .
16 But what would that mean for a partnership of solicitors where some practised in court and others did not .
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